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25 September 2021 CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Leigh S. Tesfatsion ADDRESS: Department of Economics 260 Heady Hall Iowa State University 518 Farm House Lane Ames, Iowa 50011-1054 Email: [email protected] http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ CITIZENSHIP U.S.A. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Ph.D., Economics (Major) and Mathematics (Minor), Dec. 1975, Thesis Co-Advisors: Clifford Hildreth and Leonid Hurwicz; Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, B.A. Cum Laude, Distinction in History, Phi Beta Kappa, June 1968. CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Economics, ISU, from Jan 2018; Courtesy Research Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, ISU, from July 2020; Associate Editor, Journal of Energy Markets, Risk Journals, from July 2007; Scientific Committee, International Journal of Microsimulation, from Sept 2015; Advisory Board, Economic Policy in Complex Environments (EPOC), European Union (funded project), from June 2020; Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), from Oct 2018; Member, International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), from April 2021; Member, Experts Panel: Transactive Systems Hybrid Economic-Control Theory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), from April 2018; Member, International Scientific Advisory Council for the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), from October 2011; Member, IEEE Power and Energy Society, from 2005; Member, Committee for the Status of Women in the Econ. Prof. (CSWEP), from 2001; Member, Society for Computational Economics (SCE), from 1995; Member, American Economic Association (AEA), from 1975; Contact Liaison, SCE Special Interest Group on Agent-Based Computational Economics, from Fall 1999. 1 PAST PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Professor of Economics, ISU, 1990-2017; Courtesy Professor of Mathematics, ISU, 1990-2017; Courtesy Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, ISU, 2009-2017; Graduate Faculty Member, Human-Computer Interaction Program, ISU, 2003-2017; Professor of Economics, University of Southern California, Sept. 1989 - Aug. 1990; Assoc. Professor of Economics, University of Southern California, Sept.1981-Aug.1989; Visiting Researcher, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sept. 1981 - Aug. 1982; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Mpls, March.1980-Aug.1980; Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Sept. 1975 - Aug. 1981; Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, North-Holland/Elsevier, July 2000 through March 2018; Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer, July 2005 to December 2017; Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Basil-Blackwell, April 1997 to June 2006; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Neural Network Council, July 1996 to December 2002; Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier (North Holland), June 1991 to March 2008; Contributing Co-Editor, Complexity-at-Large Section, Complexity, John Wiley & Sons., Nov. 1997 to Aug .2004; Guest Editor, Special Issue on Agent-Based Computational Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 25/3-4 (2001); Guest Editor, Special Issue on Agent-Based Computational Economics, Computational Economics, Vol. 18(1), October 2001; Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on Transactive Energy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, October 2016 to March 2018; Guest Editor, Special Issue on Agent-Based Modeling of Evolutionary Economic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Vol. 5(5), October 2001; Guest Editor, Special Issue Dedicated to Robert E. Kalaba, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 45(2):Part II, September 1991; Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, Nov. 2002 - Oct. 2004; Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2005-2018; Member, Committee on Organizational Modeling from Individuals to Societies, National Research Council of the National Academies, March 2005 to March 2008; Advisory Council Member (Elected), Society for Computational Economics (SCE), Jan. 1997 - Jan. 2000, and March 2001 - Jan. 2004. 2 PRIMARY RESEARCH AREAS: Electric power market design; Agent-based computational economics; Modeling of dynamic coupled physical, natural, and human systems; Learning in dynamic multi-market contexts; Evolution of economic networks; Optimality and efficiency in open-ended dynamic economies; Flexible Least Squares (multicriteria optimization method for model specification); Adaptive computation (nonlocal sensitivity analysis, eigenvalue/eigenvector tracking, automatic differentiation, adaptive homotopy continuation); Learning via criterion filtering (temporal difference/Q-learning). CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS: A new swing-contract design for centrally-managed wholesale electric power markets; Transactive energy system designs for integrated transmission and distribution systems; Power markets in transition: Agent-based modeling tools for transactive energy support; Agent-based computational economics: A constructive approach to economic theory. HONORS: Keynote Address, Social Simulation Conference (virtual), sponsored by the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), September 20-24, 2021. Recipient of the 2020 David A. Kendrick Distinguished Service Award, Society for Computational Economics (SCE) Outstanding Reviewers for 2020 Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Keynote Address, Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSS 18), Santa Fe, NM, Oct 25-28, 2018 Keynote Address, Duke Forest Conference, Durham, NC, November 11-13, 2016 Plenary Address, International Economic Science Association (IESA) Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June 25-28, 2009. Plenary Address, AGENT 2007, Northwestern University, November 17, 2007. Invited Organizer, ACE Tutorial, Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Meetings, Chicago, January 2007. Plenary Address, 12th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF'06), Society for Computational Economics (SCE), Cyprus, June 23, 2006. Plenary Panel Address, Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven Application Simulation (DDDAS), National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., January 19-20, 2006. Member, Committee on Organizational Modeling from Individuals to Societies, National Research Council of the National Academies, March 2005 - March 2008. Plenary Address, International Workshop on Agent-Based Models for Economic Policy Design, ZiF, Bielefeld University, Germany, June 30-July 2, 2005. Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the Computation Institute and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, October 27-29, 2003; 3 HONORS...CONTINUED: Keynote Address, Workshop on Labor and Industrial Dynamics: The Agent-Based Computational Economics Approach, Moncalieri, Italy, October 4, 2003; Distinguished Lecture, James Franck Institute, U of Chicago, 22 May 2002 Plenary Address, Sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, March 10, 2002; National Academy of Sciences Panel Discussant, Sackler Colloquium, Irvine, CA, October 4-6, 2001; Keynote Address, First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, Atlantic City, NJ, February 28, 2000. CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS: External Expert Advisor, Colciencias, Modalidad Programas, 3/2020-2/2023: \Valuing Variability in the Colombian Electricity Market," $372,000; PI, Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), 7/1/2019-6/30/2021: \Market and Control Mechanisms Enabling Flexible Service Provision by Grid-Edge Resources in End-to-End Power Systems," $220,000; Co-PI, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 1/1/2017-9/30/2020: \Flexible Service Contracting for Risk Management within Integrated Transmission and Distribution Systems," $433,054; PI, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), 3/19/2018 - 7/31/2019: \Regional Transactive Systems: Reduced-Order Bulk System & Wholesale Market," $100,000; PI, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), 4/1/2017 - 2/28/2019: \Development of an Integrated Transmission and Distribution System to Evaluate Transactive Energy Systems," $210,252; Co-PI, Iowa Energy Center (IEC), 9/2016-9/2017: \Resilience Enhancement of Electric Power Systems and Associated Infrastructures," $124,579; Scientific Committee, NSF, 9/2016 - 2/2018: \Agent-Based Models in the Social, Human-Environment, and Life Sciences," $94,996; PI, Electric Power Research Center, 8/2015 - 8/2016: \Integrated Distribution and Transmission Effects of Demand-Response Initiatives," $41,191; Co-PI, ISU LAS Signature Research Initiative Award, 5/10/2013-5/9/2016: \Water and Climate Change: Building Community Consensus for a Sustainable Future for Iowa and the World," $329,509; Co-PI, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), Department of Energy, 2/24/2012-1/30/2015: \Improved Power System Operations Using Advanced Stochastic Optimization," $3.1 Million; PI, Sandia National Laboratory, 7/2011-7/2013: \Market Design for Energy, Ancillary, and Reliability Services in Wholesale Electric Power Markets," $163,183; PI, Electric Power Research Center, 8/2010-8/2013: \Integrated Retail and Wholesale Power System Operation with Smart-Grid Functionality," $223,000; 4 CONTRACTS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS...CONTINUED: PI, Department of Energy at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 7/1/2009-6/30/2012: \An